Catered Meal for Camp James A Garfield 1-11 June 2026 Ravenna Ohio

The contract requires a small business contractor to provide hot buffet-style breakfast and dinner services, totaling 3,000 meals, for Camp James A. Garfield in Ravenna, Ohio, over a 10-day period from June 1 to June 11, 2026. All services—including meal delivery, setup, serving, and disposal—must be performed in strict accordance with the attached Performance Work Statement, with deliveries occurring daily at the designated location. The contract is a total small business set-aside under FAR 19.5, and all offerors must be certified as small businesses with proper size status representations in place. The work is classified as a commercial service under FAR 52.212-4, with pricing submitted in a firm-fixed-price format; however, specific dollar values are not disclosed in the solicitation, and award will be based on a trade-off analysis considering price and other factors, not solely on the lowest bid. The contractor must furnish all personnel, equipment, materials, and supervision without government-provided resources. Compliance with military standards is mandatory, including adherence to MIL-STD-129 for packaging and shipping labels and MIL-STD-130 for unique item identification using Data Matrix symbology with ECC200 encoding, requiring enterprise identifiers, serial numbers, and part batch information. Food safety standards must meet USDA, FDA, and Army Regulations AR 30-22 and TM 10-412, with a 100% pass rate on labeling, temperature control, and sanitation requirements and 98% on-time delivery performance. All personnel must complete AT Level 1 and iWATCH training within 30 days of performance start and pass security screening for installation access. A designated Contract Manager must be named within three days of award, and all operations must comply with zero-tolerance policies on trafficking in persons and child labor. Invoicing must be submitted through WAWF, and the government retains unlimited rights to all deliverables. Inspection and acceptance occur at the origin and destination, with deficiencies needing correction within two hours at no cost to the government. The contract includes numerous FAR clauses with deviations, particularly around small business subcontracting, security, and contractor compliance obligations, and requires strict adherence to DoD IUID and supply chain traceability protocols.